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By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
― African Proverbs

woman who pursues a man for sex loses her spiritual beauty.
― African Proverbs

A small house will hold a hundred friends.
― African Proverbs

Only a fool tests the depth of the river with both feet.
― African Proverbs

Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.
― African Proverbs

One spoon of soup in need has more value than a pot of soup when we have an abundance of food.
― African Proverbs

If you run after two hares you will catch neither
― African Proverbs

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
― African Proverbs

Beauty is not sold and eaten
― African Proverbs

If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness.
― African Proverbs

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